1 Chronicles 17:15
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
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1 Chronicles 17:15
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
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1 Chronicles 17:2
Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
1 Chronicles 17:3
That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles 17:4
“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 17:5
for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’
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1 Chronicles 17:7
“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:8
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
1 Chronicles 17:9
I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17:10
and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
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